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r . . . . ' , . , , 1 Cli - r.n:I Sbihri Pcnhc; 'in fact, almost ever kind that growc. Rcm;;-b;r th: c:.t:, t::::c::cv and :::::t day, Jim: tli; :::! .th. n't fail to attend this great gathering of high class horces and their loveu. There will pcitivdy be no ris!:. for yen to run in buying Everyone mu:t be just as represented on day of sale or money refunded Sale will brnii er.cli morning at nine o'dc:!:, and will continue until 125 head is sold each day, REGARDLESS OF PRICE; Don't fail to attend this grand auction at - 2'iiny mm & Company. 116 South Davie St., Greensboro, Ih C. 4 ! J: AT JAMESTOWN I STATE'S SHOWING Most Compart and U: Inhibit Setting y rtesoure of State One of Striking Fe. IIttj In Choice of Seloo- ArtUtlc Arrangement ; i k Done by Those In YLOR ROBEKTSOX. ing noticeably displayed In the pyra mid described above containing clear grains and seeds, are used de eoratlvely as well as to show Hhe va riety and quality of the Old North State. . ' In conecUon with the showing of this department you will notice 82 large colored transporendlcs. These form the windows of a pagoda-llke structure in one corner of the central both. Within the pagoda, is a pow erful electric light, which , serves to show the colors in the transporenclea. From the top of the structure mounts a tobacco column, about five feet in circumference. This pillar is covered with decorations of tobacco leaves, the various varieties being shown. Its top Is "ornamented with a growing to bacco plant. While the whole State of North Carolina is represented by the exhib its o fthe Department of Agriculture, a great many of the lnest were sent from the plantation of W. II. Robins, near Raleigh; Mr. Robins himself ar ranging them In the booth. HORTICULTURE. Here you will see the products of the North Carolina fruit growers and market gardeners. All kinds of fresh, preserved and canned fruits and veg etables are shown by this department, and during the exposition fresh speci mens will be frequently received each at its season. , . ' FORESTRY. Though a by no means ancient science, forestry finds many tof Its most ardent students In North Caro lina, and the exhibits in this depart ment are surpassed by none of like nature at the exposition. The chief displays consist of cross sections of the various forest trees of the State, shown in conjunction with longitudinal sections cut from the ame trees. The cross sections were :ut as broad as the trees allowed. The longitudinal pieces aire in uniform engths. with the bark attached. . The upper half of every piece has been given a highly polished' cabinet finish. The lower varts have been sand-papered, only leaving the wood in Its unfinished, natural state. In this way about 40 varieties of forest trees are shown, each being carefully labeled. Along with these woods you will be a unique collection of forest seeds, representing , half a hundred varieties. . There are 12 transparencies in ex ploitation of this department They are In an elevated pagoda, arched over two large exhibit cases. A mall column extends from the Toof of the pagoda, On the top of this column of a pedestal is a peacock in full plum age. FISH AND GAME. Among the exhibits of this depart ment you will see several-of the most strange and unique at the entire expo sition. You will ee a 'possum with creamy white hair aod beautiful pink eyes; you will gee an albino squirrel, as white as cotton and a fluffy as ider down. - In the same case with these freaks. ; you will see a yellow racoon, so near ly approaching alblontem as to be al most a true representa tion of the type. There three speclments are from the isortn Carolina State Museum, where for the last several years they have atrraetea great attention and Inter est. They were all killed in the State; the 'possum having been caught 'near Kalelgh, the coon near Wilmington, and the squirrel in Craven- county. Then you will see a number of game and fur bearing animals, to gether with a large assortment of skins. There Is a case full of wild ducks 23 varieties; two of each as a rule and lx or eight wild geese. They were coneciea oy air. Brimiey. many tspeciments having been prepared es pecially for exhibit, at the exnosltlon. its in the central booth With the ducks you will be shown the Carolina exhibit in the t palace at the James ion is second to none in :. It is compact an dex ! thoroughly exploits the the State: natural and l. ; - v - mething over (,000 floor space In the north f the building, Just to he main entrance, this the arm of the capital lth a square within it. contains ' about 8,000 i floor space, forestry and ie. That space contained commodates the exhibits are and textile divisions, I bits of like character in ive assemblage cost 113, . much being spent in the the side booths. impression on approach-! it is wonder at its com-; I yet nothing eeems 1 u wonCer at . the multi cts; then taking them ih ! order, you are struck by! heir arrangement COLOR SCHEME. colors blue, red and : eminently displayed in aa, and yet the prevail li cream and gold. Around jettons of the exhibit is polished brass. The posts this rail are . finished in sold. On the top of each t with a golden ball. The nd there are some eight or are flanked t with tall i columns with Ionic cap unted by gild eagles with read. -. i festoons between the col ? central, booth are cords il - colored peanuts, in artistic decorations, aided i designs of grain and for. rit of its size and unusual the decorated building as ; exhibit catches your at lost immediately. On the oof of this little house are ualnt designs and displays ry principal agricultural 'orth Carolina. The roof Is rn shucks; the sides of ceo, grasses, corn stalks, (lipped grain. mist attractive designs are the monogram of nd the seal of the Depart-r-lculture. This latter figure :r r scales, over which M tobacco leaves, in the cen fat. One-half of it is used decoration of corn, cot- rground Is a plough; be e of the superintendent of ; the other half has been t' a storerooom for boxes, t, etc..'., . s ::tistic display. i artlsist-lc display, in the ! one that will not fail to ynur admiration, is an agrl : ram Id, built in four sec ?xhibltlng In tubes and Jsts ain products of the State. thiA, drooping from the top 'Ing umbrella of artificial- peanut!, blending perfect brown and yellow grain, the red background with yramid is finished. nd finally Into the finished thread, which goes intra the woveiL fabric. ... More than 100 mlllf are represent ed, among the largest Interests being the Cone , Export and Commission Company, of Greensboro and New York, controlling 25 North Carolina mills in the selling agency depart ments; B. Frank Mebane, controlling the collective mills nine in number, of Spray and Leakesvllle; W. A. Er win, of West Durham, N. C, controll ing the Erwln cluster of seven mills; the Hunter Manufacturing and Com DOUBLE BARRELLED CAIMfOX. Only One Is at Athens, Ga. Result of the First Test. New Orleans Times-Democrat. ' The only double barrelled cannon In the world is one of the historic curi osities of Athens, Ga. " There is a history orunlque interest that goes along with this old cannon. Besides being the only double barrell- shobtl ed "shooting Iron" of this kind ever mission Company, of Greensboro and invented, It was conceived with a pe- New York, controlling six or seven mills scattered through the State. Twenty glass cases aggregating nearly 2,000 cubic feet pf exhibit space, are shown in the booth display ing many kinds and qualities of cotton i ana wooien iaDrics, in au weignxs ana colors. In these cases you will see a great variety of garments and hosiery in exploitation of the several kinds of material used In them. The wall of the booth Is decorated with textile designs and pictures of North Carolina cotton mills and plants. Among these Is a transparency of the great Whitney falls power at Whitney, N. C, where 18,000,000 is now being expended In development . FURNITURE. The furniture department shows a collective exhibit from the numerous factories of the State In sulta and od dities, and also the woods in the dif ferent stages, of manuacture. Most of the cabinet woods of the State are employed in this furniture manufacture. You will see a number of very nretty and useful articles, and will realize perhaps for the first time, unless you are from North Car olina that thatState Is by no means unknown in the world which the ex hibits in this department represent You will understand the astonish ing strides which are being made by the Old North State in tnai direction, and you will see that this speaks well not only for that State, out ror ine South in general. OUR NAVY AN JAPAN'S. d and arranged by T.' K. n-tary of the North Caro 1'oard .of agriculture, and ; ley, : curator . of the State Mr. j Brlmley has active the whole exhibit of -the on account of his wide ex i exposition affairs, has i Htate services of lncal ;e. He has had through rty co-operation of the ag oard, which, with Mr. Bru- an old exposition man, 'ary, is to be held ac ; r a great part of the sue undertaking. to eH some Idea of the n of the collective exhibits, ke them . In the order of ' apartments given In the rraph of thU article, de h in a general way, polnt- Ktrlklng displays, and ex- ?n more carefully. . ".ItlCL'LTURE. lb;t$ of this department ' umimally fine samples of 'irollna grains and grasps f frr bundleA considerable the decorations are in rep 't thia department. J.r sni tubes, many be- l OLLAIlS'-VVOHTII OF "1 with kidney and fMsip t ravel 'rs. ...-if culiar idea by the Inventor, John Gil leland, a member of the Mltohell Thunderbolts, a local military com pany during the war. The Mitchell Thunderbolts was a company compos ed of men too old for active service in the field and was organized purely for home defence. Mr. Qilleland, the inventor, believed that with a cannon of the double bar rel pattern he could mow down Yan kees by the hundreds. He had his can non cast at the Athens foundry, and when finished it was hauled out to the outskirts of the city, "where a test was made. One test was entirely sufficient to demonstrate that the cannon was a rank failure. A 500 foot chain with the ends at tached to two cannon balls was tho charge. These balls were rammed into the cannon good and hard, t was the Inventor's Idea, that when the cannon was fired the chain would stretch taut and cut down ! everything within Its length. When it was properly loaded it was touched off with great ceremo ny. : ..' One of the balls got out a little ahead of the other and the devil and Tom Jones were to pay. It had a kind of circular motion, ploughed up about fin acre of ground, tore up a cornfield, mowed down saplings, and the chain broke, the two balls olng in different directions. One o fthe balls killed a young cow in a distant field, while the other knocked down a chimney from A loir r-nhln Thu tnemhors nt th Thnn. We Are Stronger In the Atlantic, Ja- derbolts who went out to witness the pan in the Pacific. test scattered as though the entire Harper's Weekly. Yankee army had turned loose in tfat In our Atlantic fleet we have now a e""1- - . . . 7 battleship armada that could un- t ' ne one test was enougn to convince doubtedly destroy all of Japan's navy the inventor that his do-.ibl barrelled iwiarod to-morrow, and this cannon was more disastrous to the fleet In striking distance, with its bases men behind it than to the enemy in of nupplies and its coaling stations , front. It was drawn baclr to the city I nnAv buu was never usea HTiun except 10 But does any one aouDt mat japan vcicuiv? ucjiwciaur -vimunes, um would Instantly seize these sUtions j numoer or times for tr ; purpose be- Clawail and the Phlllppinesy were my ratner nmuea excert m state cam iht flAAt tn he ordered to the East? 1 palgns. Several years sro the old can- Then the advantage would rest with tnon disappeared from Jn. front of the her, and In a ratio that cannot be ap proximatea. All of Japan's naval torces are con centrated In or around the waters r' .Tnnnn America's naval strentrth .n those far off seas ,s not strength at i stands one of tho most all weakness more than strength. We rencs o una civu war. have out tnere a division of armored ' ! - cruisers four of the best of their j Cat Hai Burjjlar Arresi ed. iype afloat and commanded by one of Philadelphia Public Ledger. - - dt yhall, arid It wrs found In a Junk shop, from which 1': was rescued and after being mounted was placed in the little park on College avenue, opposite the Federal building, where it now interesting hybrid duck a cross between a mal lard and black duck. This was shot some time ago in North Carolina, and Is one of the few wpeclments of hy oria uucks in existence. 1 The fishing interests of the State r e represented - by numbers of large colored reproductions of the moat im portant fish of North Carolina waters, and a full assortment of crabs, clams, oysters, turtles, shrimps, etc ' With the fish exhibits are shown models of the varlov type of fishing craft used on the coast, and In the rivers and lakes of the State, While in miniature only, these little boats are perfect In every detail, and were you a Lilliputian, you could wish for nothing better "than to go down to the sea Jn Jast uch little ships.. . . ; , EXCELLENT DISPLAY8 IN TEX TILES AND FURNITURE. - These dtpartments are In charge of Aaron R. Chisholm, who understands the buinena thoroughly, and who has arranged the exhibits in a very artistic manner. The cotton fabric interests of North Carolina are among the most import ant in the State. Thee are complete ly covered by the textile display, sev eral thousand specimens being shown in the stacks and eaaes. The various stages 'of fabric ip Us manufacture are Jnterewtlngly shown on a pyramid-like structure, On the top of this pile you will see the raw r'tin in .the bowl on the t ' '"ked nM?dM the most capable officers of the navy, Rear Admiral Wlllard H. Brownson. But what coul dfour armored cruisers avail against the 13 battleships and 13 armored cruisers of Japan? We have also in those waters a di vision of protected cruisers, four In all but against these Japan could send 21 of an equal or superior type. Our five destroyers would be pitted against We have no torpedo boats in the East. Japan has 79. Nor have we any submarines out there. Japan has vsev- cn. ..; . ' . . ., : Tt was only a few davs ago that the. cables brought news of the launching of a flotilla of new destroyers from Japanese shipyards. The Japs enter ed the war against Russia with only 19 of this type. No one knows what else Japan Is doing to increase her naval and mili tary strength. Great Britain as an ally of .Tanan naturally was the first to profit bv the lesions of tht war, and although the building of her Dread-rauht-was concealed as sedulously as Tiossible, news of the construction of (hat great vessel was in almost every admiralty office soon after the keet was laid. hwdnA lie IdD , t And while a!l of these were doing Ihelr utmost to find out what the new vessel would be, what would be her need, displacement, runs an armor, a Japanese Dreadnaught, an unhemlddA went overboard from a Japanese shlp-f vara, vna no one Knows how manv mere. Japan has building or projected. William Taft caused the capture of a negro in the collar of William Jones yesterday! In this case, however, Wil liam Taft was not the Secretary of War. but a maUesj cat, almost as big, as cats go, as the Secretary of War is, as men go. - , Percival Johnston, the negro, sneak ed into. Jones' cellar. The cat saw him. Then he ncurrlc to th5 room of his master, so the masters swears, scratch ed on his door until he awakened him, led the way to th cellar, pointed to tn open cellar door and meowed in telligently. The master went upsfalrs and telephoned the police. The police came and took the negro out. DESERT MINERS' ETIQUETTE. Never Ask Where Man's Claims or Se cret Water Ilolea Are. Los Angeles Times, "Never ask a man anything about his mine; he won't . tell you If you do. It Isn't etiquette to ask such questions oh the. desert." v,..:: Uv Thus spoke J. Helneman, late of Beatty, an old timer in Dearth Valley and the desert. - ; ; . "You see, when one miner meets an other on the desert they stop, talk and pass pUasantrlea. One will ask the other how he's getting along and he will say 'good' or 'hard luck but that's baout all. Neither asks for de tails or where the other has his claims located. If any man wants you to know he'll tell you without being ask ed. If not he won't tell you if you do ask. , ' ,? .; "The fact Is that" if a man has a great body of low .grade ore that he must have a force of men to work and ship to the smelters he must record It. But If he has a rich spot with free gold easily handled It Is not necessary, and many ; times one doesn't care to have the world know about it and have everybody coming to dig all around. It often leads to troubles and litigation," Jumping and all that sort of thing. . ' "If a property is In the mountains It Is more necessary to record it for it 13 easier found. A man can be followed In the mountains, but never out on the desert. I would like to see the man who could follow me on the "desert if I don't want him to. rll give him a chase that will make him very sick of his Job. Of course in such cases a claim is never left unguarded if any one should stumble upon It by acci dent. In such case possession will be nine points of the law. . "This is not onjy about mines but also about private secret water holes. .You know some o fthese give so little water that once known to the general p ublic , they would be of no use to those who went to big trouble finding them, or to any one else very soon,, so they never tell. Let one who has such a place hidden find one In need he will sliflre his water, and, if necessary, he will go and bring back a supply, but the other fellow doesn't know where it comes from. That's the finder's se cret. - "Of course there are public watering routes. Some wells have been dug hy individuals or companies who sell wa ter. Lots of money has been expended in this way. The water; problem is in deed a sejrlous one on the desert. "At some of the camps . water is hauled by team and sells for' as high as S9 a barrel. PeopleNwho don't know think that Is a terfible price, but It really leaves a very small profit for the long h,aul and the time lost and feed of teams. Often much of the wa-1 ter-with which one starts Is used by the horses." - - - .Why the Quiet Boy Waited. Woman's Home Companion. An old gentleman, rather portly and clad in a somewhat youthful suit of light gray flannel, eat on a bench In the parkenjoying the spring day. "What's the matter, sonny?" he ask. ed a small urchin who lay on the grass Just across the walk and stared Intent ly. "Why don't you go and play?". "Don't wanter," the-boy replied. . "But it is not natural," the old gen tleman insisted, "for a boy to be so quiet. Why don't you run about?" j'Oh, I'm Just waltin' the little fel low answered. "I'm Just waltin" till you get up. A man painted that bench about 15 minutes ago." .' r ; , .. Turkeys aa Cola lakers. Schenectady OacsHa, . i "This old Roman coin looks all right" said a numismatist, "but it is a fake. It was faked, undoubtedly, by a turkey." "Faked by a turkey?" v - "Bvea so. Turkeys fake three fourths of the old Roman coins you find tn the cheap curio shops of Italy. Hang the birds, they must add a hun dred thousand a year to the Italian revenue. -" ' : ' . "It is aald that, back In the sixties, a Turin surgeon extracted a nail from a child's stomach, and found th iron to have the same reddish. rusted and corroded look that Iron thousands of years old has. " e howed the nail to a ourlo dealer, and this rogue perceived that here was the secret he had long been seeking the secret of giving to new metal, an ap pearance or immemorial age. "The curio dealer at once fell ' to and made a lot of IJeronlc and An tonlne and . Augustan coins, forced them down the throats of sundry tur-! Keys, ana m a few days, killing the birds, took out the counterfeits. "They looked splendid. They were all rusted, all eaten away. Tehir value had go no up a thousand fold. "Since that day he main duty of the turkeys of Italy has been the fak ing of old coins. , "Many tourists, In fact complain of the coppery or metallic taste of the turkey served in the Italian restaur ants. No wonder, eh?" - The Bolt Didn't Ipiow. Schenectady Gazvette. Attorney General Jackson, of New York, was criticising In Albany a cer tain excuse that had been offered him. "It was a slim excuse," ha said. "It reminds of the excuse of the lightning rod agent "In the adys when all the world swore by lightning rods, a farmer had two cost! yon es put on a new barn. But only a week or two later there came a violent t thunder storm, the barn was struck, end in a few hours all that reamlned of it was a heap of charred black refuse. - - - "Next day the farmer sought out t-e lightning rod agent " 'Fine lightning rods you sold me!" he tfhouted. Here's my new barn been struck and burned to ashes!" ' " hat?' said the agent ; 'Struck by lightning?" . - " 'Yes. sir; by lightning.' . ""In the day time?" ' . " 'No; at night. Last night. The agent's puzzled frown relaxed a little. " 'Ah,' he said "It was a dark night, wasn't it?, "'Of course it was,' said the far mer. 'It was pitch dark. 1 " 'Were the lanterns burning?' .V 'What lanterns? . . "The agent looked amazed, Incred ulous. " 'Why, he said, you don't mean to tell me that you didn't: run up lan terns on the rods on dark nights?' for the teeth the most cleansing, fragrant, healthful, pleasant after-taste dentifrice Is - cade & Baker's Garblic OcufEil'a I at your druggist's, Sfc, BOo, fUM Waster Dead; Dog Keeps up Rls ,. . Habits.. Chicago .Tribune.; C. ;f! sX: ,, For several years an' old man in the habit of visiting one of thft barns at the sane hour every i where he always occupied thes seat while smoking and ooner with the trainmen. He was tr. iabley accompanied by a larxe by dog, seemingly as old as hin About a year ago the old man q and since that time the dog has failed to visit the barn every da the usual hour and insists on oc Ing the same place which h occu before his masters death. . : I One day the old man had a' an;? with one of the men over eom tr: matter ana the aog still holds f grudge in beh4f o his dad nu always growling and showing) teeth In a vicious manner whti tin. a man tries to make up with He Is also averse t to makinir friends and always Ignores the attention of strangers, but is al' glad to welcome those who were to his old master, never failing to ana shake hands with one cond who was a favorite with thd old. For the sake of justice to the af! and for the good of humanity," it ii right and duty to recommend HoK Rocky Mountain Tea, We owe our t try and our fellowmen a duty, jl'l Tablets.. Si cents. R. H. Jordan ft 0T 3' I Paint Buying Made Safe White Lead and Linseed Oil need no argument, v no advertising to maintain them salves as the best and most economic al paint yet known to man. Tliedifficulty has been for the buyer to be always sure of tbe purity . of the white lead and oil. We have registered the trade mark of the Dutch Boypaii! to be the final proof of quality, p uineness ana purity to paint buJ everywhere. This trade mark appJ on every Jteg ot Lewis Pure White Lead made by the Old Dutch IW SEND FOR BOOK " Uos on the palti tubiect, Free a.ioa rt JOHN T. LEWIS & BKOI. 3I 8. Front St., Philadelphia, rf For Sale by all Dealers . f y L . I fin ni mi in in, ,., I, ni' i ,,. 1mm tmamiummmitJ . j Vj CATARBH AND ChTARRIIAL HEAD ACHES ni quickly relieved b Nosena. r soothes the congested membranes, all v. IndammatlOBS and thoroughly heal, and dt-ans. It keeps t motst all the pas ssses whose tendency is to thlnken an4 1-ocome dry. Cures coldt, threat trou blw. hoarsenesi. hay fever, "stopped up" nose, breathing through mouth while sleeping, offensive breath, etc. it It antiseptic and contains no chemical! or drugs having, a narcotic ,rrfct, 0, that can cause the ".drug habit." w, ll Hand & Co. and Jno. M. Scott A Co WE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION J. A. fcroxdon. ot the National ei- Co., Dayton, Ohio, writes under ddte M Oct. 12. 1006: "Nosena is the only IrVi tny aflw-tlSn so speedily duj ploasantlv I I I"! Hating the first rn pl-tmirQ n'iU ,!: x thnt . I . I).--. f,n i 1 r i ' ;! IHfif.cLE Uiy Vot Tace Tie Rgfit Kmct of Medcne A TONIC, one that is bound to do you 00. cfrtnrl : PJnn.orlp. Pflsvl RTrtrnr . tvill ' almost immediately give you strength and vitality. It is made in a scientific Viray for chronic medicine takers, those vho never feel exactly right. Ffcnacto Malt Extract Is also iavc:t!3 zt t tcz!c f:r nsrrfnj ccthcrs. It d::s net enly trprevs lis eclher's hztlih, tut cakes tr.3 lily strcrj tzi ttzzsu It prepares tcti' n:lhsr tzi tzly V.
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